Goldie Hawn Was Privately ‘Stung’ by ‘Death Becomes Her’ Costar Meryl Streep’s Recent Remarks

Goldie Hawn describes Meryl Streep as “very professional” and “a perfectionist.” As it turns out, those qualities put the two women at odds on the set of 1992’s Death Becomes Her — with Meryl still stewing over it 34 years later!

“Goldie, she was always late to set … and I’m always on time,” the Devil Wears Prada 2 star recently recalled in an interview with Vanity Fair. “So I had a beef with her.”

Making matters worse, Meryl says everyone else involved in the filming of the cult classic thought the bubbly beauty was “so cute” when she’d drive up in her red convertible apologizing for arriving past call time.

“Goldie was kind of in her own world,” a source admits to the National Examiner. “She knew Meryl was a little testy towards her, but it was something she chose to brush off.”

Hearing Meryl dredge up their decades-old feud has been harder to dismiss. “The fact that she brought it up was surprising to Goldie, for sure,” reveals the source. “Even though Meryl was being kind of tongue in cheek about the whole situation, her words stung. Airing dirty laundry like this in public is not how Goldie rolls.”

In Death Becomes Her, the Oscar winners play pals turned love rivals who wind up as codependent frenemies after both drink a magic potion that gives them immortality.

Despite their rough start on the Los Angeles shoot — which also featured Bruce Willis as the object of their affections — Meryl, 76, and Goldie, 80, were able to find common ground in real life as well.

According to a 1992 Premiere magazine report, the leading ladies would sit around between takes of the Robert Zemeckis flick knitting and watching their similarly aged kids run around. Each a mother of four, they’d given birth within two months of each other in 1986.

Eventually, Meryl adjusted to Goldie’s work style too, confessing her own strict ways could be “annoying.”

“We just laughed,” Streep added to Vanity Fair of her days on set with “adorable” Goldie. “We just had a lot of fun. And she’s the best laugher in America, really.”

The big belly laughs have continued “over the years,” says the Mamma Mia! alum.

“I love her,” Meryl insists. “She’s one of my buddies.”

“Goldie’s a very zen character and ultimately, this isn’t something she’s going to dwell over,” spills Examiner’s source. “She adores Meryl and vice versa, so they’re in that lucky position where they can speak their minds about each other and still come out the other side as the best of friends.”